Difference between revisions of "OWASP Video Game Security Framework"

Business Strategy & Risk

The purpose of the Strategy & Risk phase in the framework is to layout a guiding path to creating and completing security related initiatives in gaming.

Strategy & Risk Process

1.    Establish Purpose

2.    Triage Capabilities

3.    Define Vision

4.    Plan Next steps

1. Establish Purpose

It’s important to understand in detail the goal of the overall security strategy and how can you capture requirements to ensure this phase is properly completed. Eventually a full project plan will be created for the initiatives that emerge from this phase. Establishing how an org handles these types of projects is a key driver of success.

Example Questions to ask:

What are the project requirements?

1)    Detailed in Project plan

a)    May come from leadership and other areas of business

What is the proposed approach to this project?

1)    Methodology

a)    Waterfall

b)    Agile

Who are the parties involved?

1)    Key Stake Holders

2)    Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

3)    Project Managers & Staff

What are the Risks, Barriers & Concerns?

1)    Resource Availability

a)    Staff

b)    Technology

c)    Finances

2)    Complexity of project

a)    No SME

b)    Vendor support

What are the known tasks that need to be accomplished?

1)    Varies by project

2. Triage Capabilities

Assessing the current security capabilities within a company is the next step. This will allow an organization to understand certain strengths and developing areas in their sec operations. The very detailed information from the results of the assessments are vital to the next step.

Example Questions to ask:

What security controls do we currently have in place?

1)    Physical Security

2)    Network Security

3)    System Integrity

4)    Application Security

5)    User Security

Are licensed security technologies being utilized to their fullest potential?

What are the gaps in the security technologies currently used?

1)    Lack of scalability

2)    Cannot perform data analytics

3. Define Vision

The vision for org security needs to be created with the overall business objectives in mind. This needs to start out very high level and can be tailored a bit more later. Understanding industry trends and being innovative allows for a better vision.

Example Questions to ask:

What do we want our security posture to look like in the future?

1)    Better alignment with the business

a)    Budget planning

b)    Make security a part of future business decisions

2)    Improve financials decisions

a)    Decrease spending

b)    Smarter spending

3)    Lower cyber risks to organization

a)    Address current and future security challenges

b)    Implement detection, prevention, response

4)    Higher Return on Investment (ROI)

a)    Competitive advantage

b)    Higher market share

c)    Increased consumer trust

What are the current threats to the organization?

What does the org need to protect?

1)    Based on value of asset

a)    Cost

b)    Rarity

2)    Based on impact to business

a)    Stop operations

b)    Impact user privacy

4. Plan Next Steps

During this phase an org must create a list with the end-resulted actions necessary to get to the newly accepted vision. This list must be prioritized and grouped to form the initiatives needed for implementation.

Example Questions to ask:

What capabilities will achieve the defined vision from the previous step?

1)    People

2)    Process

3)    Technology

What can be done to ensure continued maintenance on the defined vision?

1)    Retrospect meetings

2)    Revamp Strategy & Risk

What is the Business Strategy & Risk Section?

This section provides an overview of the various places an attacker can target to harm a given game infrastructure.

Sub-project Leader

• Romen Brewer

Related Projects

• [2]
• The OWASP Mobile Top 10 Project
• The OWASP Web Top 10 Project

Collaboration

Join the discord channel: [3]

Quick Download

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News and Events

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Governance & Compliance

The purpose of the Governance & Compliance phase in the framework is to layout a guiding path to establishing and maintaining a G&C operating model. With the current trends in gaming raising the risk to the public's privacy, having a proper G&C model will keep the business continuity high therefore lowering the risks related to non-compliance.

Governance & Compliance Process

1. Regulation Alignment

2. Audit Process

3. Monitor Method

4. Control Setup

1. Regulation Alignment

There are many regulations that attribute to organizational compliance and understanding policies that adhere to the business model and future security strategy is the first step.

Example Questions to ask:

What are some of the current industry standards related to gaming?

1) Government

a) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

b) Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI)

c) The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)

2) Community

a) Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)

b) Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI)

c) The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)

3) Vendor

a) Microsoft

b) Sony

c) Nintendo

d) Google

e) Amazon

f) Apple

g) Steam

Which ones are mandatory? **Prioritize by impact on business (financial, reputation, etc.)

2. Audit Process

The best way to ensure an organization is maintaining the right level of compliance is to properly audit.

Auditing involves performing routine internal checks to ensure policies are being followed by all.

Example Questions to ask:

What audit objectives should we test against?

1) Physical Security

2) Network Security

3) System Integrity

4) Application Security

5) User Security

How detailed should the audit be?

1) High level

a) "Do you have a ____ to accomplish ___?"--- A simple "yes" or "no" checkbox audit

2) Behavioral

a) "Walk me through the process in the event ____ happens"--- Applied scenarios & employee critical thinking

How often should audits happen?

a) Monthly

b) Quarterly

c) Yearly

d) Combination or randomly

**Its important to be able to perform an audit on call for unpredictable external shifts in compliance requirements

3. Monitoring

Monitoring involves watching an existing infrastructure for changes related to compliance status. The goal is to detect anomalies and be able to watch organizational trends from a compliance point of view. This valuable information will aid in quickly remedying non compliance and developing new strategies by pinpointing areas of improvements.

Example Questions to ask:

What compliance items do we need to monitor? (prioritize) Assess monitoring capabilities available

1) Infrastructure

a) Are the technology resources IT environment (Virtual Machines,Applications, Databases, etc.) staying compliant after setup?

2)User Activity

a) Are users still able to operate daily job functions with compliance in place?

2) Processes

a) Is the Disaster Recover plan being implemented and tracked at each stage

b) Is the Incident Response plan being implemented and tracked at each stage

3) Reports

What monitoring method are we planning to use?

1) Reports

2) Dashboards/Charts

3) Alerts

What monitoring technology can help us achieve this?

3) Data Analytic tools

What metrics are a priority within compliance?

How do we decide on compliance improvement initiatives when a trend appears?

1) Frequency

2) Complexity

4. Control Setup

During this phase an org must implement controls in place to ensure as much compliance. The goal should not only be to set up a compliance framework but to use as much automation as possibly. This will in turn reduce overhead and will make compliance easier to manage and modify in the future.

Example Questions to ask:

How do we achieve compliance standards that are mandatory?

1) People

2) Process

3) Technology

What can be done to automate future compliance controls?

1) Automation Code/Scripts

2) Role-based Security

What is the Game Security Vulnerabilities Project?

The Security Vulnerabilities Project provides information on what types of vulnerabilities exist within games, and which attack surfaces they fall under.

Sub-project Leader

• Romen Brewer

Related Projects

• OWASP Mobile Security
• OWASP Web Top 10

Collaboration

Join the discord channel: https://discord.gg/kS7UBc6

Resources

• Top 10 IoT Vulnerabilities from 2014

News and Events

• Coming Soon

Prevention

This list refers to what a given attacker might use to take advantage of a given bug within the game.

The Exploits Project

The Exploits provides information on what types of tools and techniques an attacker might use to accomplish his/her goal.

Sub-project Leader

• Romen Brewer

Related Projects

• OWASP Mobile Security
• OWASP Web Top 10

Collaboration

The Slack Channel

Resources

• Top 10 IoT Vulnerabilities from 2014

News and Events

• Coming Soon

Management

This list refers to what a given attacker might be trying to accomplish within the game by performing a given attack. This could relate very closely (or not) with the technical impact or business impact cause by the behavior.

What is the Attacker Goals Project

The Attacker Goals Project provides information on what types of outcomes attackers might try to achieve within or outside of the game they're attacking.

Sub-project Leader

• Romen Brewer

Related Projects

• OWASP Mobile Security
• OWASP Web Top 10

Collaboration

The Slack Channel

Resources

• Top 10 IoT Vulnerabilities from 2014

News and Events

• Coming Soon

Service Delivery/ Support

The following is a list of possible negative outcomes that can occur as the result of someone successfully attacking a given game.

What is the Negative Outcomes Project?

The Negative Outcomes Project provides information on what types of situations could manifest within the game if bugs or exploits are not successfully addressed.

Project Leader

• Romen Brewer

Related Projects

• OWASP Mobile Security
• OWASP Web Top 10

Collaboration

The Slack Channel

Resources

• Top 10 IoT Vulnerabilities from 2014

News and Events

• Coming Soon

Resources

This page will list additional resources related to game security that may provide more detailed context.

What is the Game Security Vulnerabilities Project?

The Security Vulnerabilities Project provides information on what types of vulnerabilities exist within games, and which attack surfaces they fall under.

Project Leaders

• Romen Brewer

Related Projects

• OWASP Mobile Security
• OWASP Web Top 10

Collaboration

Join the discord channel: [4]

Resources

• Top 10 IoT Vulnerabilities from 2014

News and Events

• Coming Soon